VirtualBox on Netbook / Performance?

[tomma]

I'm planning to get a VirtualBox installed on a netbook.

Hardware (either Toshiba NB200-10z or Asus Eee PC 1000HE):
Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz
2G RAM

Host: WinXP

Guest: Linux/Fedora

Does anybody have any experience with the performance of such a setup? I'm going to use the Linux guest mostly for development (Python/Java/C++).

I used to run VirtualBox with the same OS combination on a dual core Intel Centrino (2G RAM) and it worked extremely well. My biggest concern now is: are nebooks with Intel Atom fast enough for this?

Thanks,

Tomma

[TerryE]

It will run if you have enough RAM, and some VM apps will run well. However, if you are doing batch compiles and your guest wants to run 100% then this will slug your host XP. XP+single core+CPU-bound processes = bumpy performance.